From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-08-06T23:44:56+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie question from a smalltalker

Lyle Johnson wrote:

>
> You may be right. I haven't used IntelliJ or Eclipse either, but I'm 
> assuming that they work with a project-based approach, where a 
> "project" is a collection of a particular set of source files and 
> build a database of classes and methods based on those. And we'd need 
> to do something similar for Ruby.


I agree that IDEs are a great environment for some folks. But just for 
balance I'd point out that it's possible to write decent sized 
applications without a class browser and refactoring tools. My biggest 
Ruby app so far has 460 classes, and when I need to refactor a method 
name I find "grep-find" very usable.


Cheers


Dave